Overview
For nearly two decades, Vlad has helped clients protect and defend their intellectual property. Vlad advises clients in the areas of strategic patent prosecution, patent portfolio management, licensing, and foreign protection in a broad range of industries, including electronics, communications, computer, information technology, medical devices, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and healthcare. Vlad also helps clients navigate open source software licenses, including compliance and IP strategy.
In addition, Vlad advises clients with validity proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and enforcement proceedings in federal district courts. He was a member of the Knobbe Martens team that defended Smith+Nephew against allegations of patent infringement and helped to ensure competition and patient choice in a multi-billion dollar wound treatment market. The details of this case are described in a Fortune Magazine article “The bloody patent battle over a healing machine.”
Before becoming a lawyer, Vlad worked as a firmware engineer for St. Jude Medical Cardiac Rhythm Management Division (now Abbott) where he developed software, firmware, and hardware for implantable pacemakers and defibrillators. Before that, Vlad developed algorithms and firmware for cochlear implants at Advanced Bionics. He also has industry experience in web applications and IP telephony.
Vlad received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, summa cum laude, and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. He received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of California Hastings College of the Law (now UC Law San Francisco), where he served on the Hastings Law Journal. In his last year of law school, Vlad was a visiting student at the UCLA School of Law where he served as an Articles Editor of the Journal of Law and Technology.
Vlad joined the firm in 2008 and became partner in 2014.
Education
- University of California - Hastings - School of Law (J.D., 2008), cum laude
- University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) (M.S. Electrical Engineering, 2001), Specialization in digital signal processing and digital speech processing
- University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) (B.S. Computer Science & Engineering, 1999), summa cum laude
Recognition
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Awards & Honors
- Listed in the ATTORNEY intel – “The Top 25 Intellectual Property Attorneys of 2024“
- Named to IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists (2023-2024) which “identifies the individuals who are leading the way in the development and implementation of strategies that maximize the value of IP portfolios”
Affiliations
- International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
- Orange County Bar Association
- OCIPLA
News & Insights
Articles
Vlad Teplitskiy, Damien Howard, Fatima Kouadio, Open Source Licensing Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Application (Legaltech News), April 23, 2025.
Vlad Teplitskiy, Tom Cowan, Ryan Freedman, Secrecy Orders for U.S. patent applications — an overview (Westlaw Today), December 6, 2024.
Vlad Teplitskiy, Harnik Shukla & Justin Theam, Leveraging Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business: Operations and Risks (Maple Business Council, MOMENTUM Articles), September 22, 2023.
Vlad Teplitskiy & Damien Howard, Medical device cybersecurity developments (Thomson Reuters Westlaw Today) July 25, 2022
Vlad Teplitskiy & Damien Howard, Where Should US-Based Startups File Their Patent Application (TechCrunch) July 25, 2022
Vlad Teplitskiy & Damien Howard, How to Decide Where to File Patent Applications (Electronic Design) July 19, 2022
Vlad Teplitskiy & Dan Altman, When and Where to File Patent Applications (Maple Business Council Newsletter) December 17, 2021
Vlad Teplitskiy & Dan Altman, Controlling the Speed of Patent Examination in the US (Maple Business Council Newsletter) February 19, 2021
Vlad Teplitskiy, Ben Shiroma, Marko Zoertic & Dan Altman, Intellectual Property Protection Strategies for Successful Business in the US and Canada (Knobbe Martens Publication), March 10, 2020.
Lauren Hockett & Vlad Teplitskiy, PurePredictive, Inc. v. H2O.AI, Inc.: Northern District of California Invalidates Machine Learning Claims Under Section 101, Section 101 Update (Knobbe Martens newsletter), Septmber 14, 2018.
Lauren Hockett & Vlad Teplitskiy, Guide to the U.S. Patent Office’s Materials on Subject Matter Eligibility, Section 101 Update (Knobbe Martens newsletter), October 11, 2017.
Keith Lim & Vlad Teplitskiy, Federal Circuit Finds Claims Directed to Securing Financing Patent Ineligible, Section 101 Update (Knobbe Martens newsletter), June 23, 2017.
Eric Y. Zhou & Vlad Teplitskiy, The Federal Circuit Finds Broad Claims to Be Patent Eligible because the Claims Are “Nearly Indistinguishable” from Those in Diamond v. Diehr, Section 101 Update (Knobbe Martens newsletter), March 24, 2017.
Lauren Hockett & Vlad Teplitskiy, Post-Alice Section 101 Eligibility Roadmap for Software Inventions, Section 101 Update (Knobbe Martens newsletter), December 12, 2016.
Vlad Teplitskiy & Christopher M. DiLeo, Navigating 101 Eligibility – Waypoints for the Federal Circuit, Section 101 Update (Knobbe Martens newsletter), September 7, 2016.
Speeches & Seminars
MAPLE Business Council Global IP Panel Discussion – Legal and Tax Considerations (June 2022)
Knobbe Practice Webinar Series: Strategic Considerations in Controlling Speed of Prosecution in USPTO (March 2021)
MAPLE Business Council Southern California Spring Reception 2021 (March 2021)
Knobbe Martens Webinar Series: Strategic Considerations in Addressing Obviousness Rejections under Section 103 (December 2020)
IP Procurement and Protection in the United States Webinar (July 2020)
MAPLE Conversations: An Introduction to Intellectual Property (March 2020)
Teplitskiy V. and Lozan V., Patent Eligibility, Interplay Between IPRs and District Court Litigation, and Functional Claiming, Uni-intel Seminar, April 22, 2019, Beijing, China.
Teplitskiy V. and Tiburzi A., Protecting Computer Implemented Inventions in US and Europe, Knobbe Martens Seminar, November 1, 2018, Irvine, CA.
Altman D. and Teplitskiy V., Protecting Your Intellectual Property in US and China, Knobbe Martens Seminar, June 14, 2017, Sunnyvale, CA; June 16, 2017, Irvine, CA; June 20, 2017, San Diego, CA.
Altman D. and Teplitskiy V., Patent-Eligibility in the US—Have the Exceptions Swallowed the Rule?, Zacco Seminar, April 18, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden.
Altman D. and Teplitskiy V., Protecting Your Intellectual Property Worldwide, Knobbe Martens Seminar, March 1, 2017, Irvine, CA. Teplitskiy, V., Contested Post-Grant Proceedings at the USPTO, Ryuka IP Seminar, April 8, 2016, Tokyo, Japan.
Altman, D., Lee, S., Teplitskiy, V., Important Developments in U.S. Patent Law and How They Affect MedTech Companies, Pinsent Masons Annual MedTech Seminar, February 26, 2015, Birmingham, United Kingdom.